On Realistic Romance (plus a little Toradora and Bakemonogatari)

It is precisely because opinions are functions of lived experience that they claim to have a certain knowledge of emotions. Opinions prevail on human passions and their eternity. But one has the impresion that opinion misjudges emotional states and groups them together or spearates them wrongly...a great novelist is above all an artist who can show us a world of new sensations outside our lived experience in the becoming of his characters. - Deleuze

Unstaple My Heart: Embracing Heavy Omoi (思い) in Bakemonogatari